A diplomatic history of the American people Thomas A. Bailey
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1980.
ISBN: 0132147262
DDC: 327.73
LCC: E183.7
Edition: $19.95
Notes:
Includes bibliographies and index.
Factors, forces, and functions -- The colonial backdrop -- The
diplomacy of the French alliance, 1775-1778 -- The diplomacy of peace
with Britain, 1778-1783 -- Foreign affairs under the Articles of
Confederation -- Embroilments with Britain, 1789-1795 -- Friction
with France, 1789-1800 -- Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase,
1801-1803 -- Jefferson and neutral woes, 1803-1809 -- Blundering into
war with Britain, 1809-1812 -- The Truce of Ghent and after,
1812-1818 -- Acquiring the Floridas, 1803-1821 -- America and the
Monroe Doctrine, 1815-1825 -- The awkward age of diplomacy, 1825-1840
--Britain and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty -- The Oregon dispute and
its settlement -- The annexation of Texas -- War and peace with
Mexico -- The ferment of the fifties -- America and Cuba to 1860 --
The dawn of Asiatic interests -- The early crises of the Civil War --
The collapse of King Cotton diplomacy -- Napoleon III and Mexico --
The Caribbean and Alaska, 1865-1867 -- Great Britain and the Grant
era, 1865-1877 -- Diplomacy a football of politics, 1877-1889 --
Blaine and spirited diplomacy, 1889-1893 -- Samoa and Hawaii: an
imperialistic preview -- Anglo-American tensions and the Venezuela
crisis --
The coming of the war with Spain, 1895-1898 -- America as a great
power, 1898-1900 -- Canal Zone diplomacy, 1900-1921 -- Big-stick
diplomacy, 1901-1909 -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Far East -- Taft
and dollar diplomacy -- Wilson and the "new" diplomacy, 1913-1917 --
Waging neutrality, 1914-1915 -- The road to World War I, 1915-1917 --
Negotiating the Treaty of Versailles -- The retreat to isolationism,
1919-1935 -- The Far East and disarmament, 1917-1938 -- Economic
foreign policy between wars, 1919-1939 -- Good neighbors south and
north, 1917-1941 -- Japan, neutrality, and the dictators, 1923-1939
-- World War II: through lend lease, 1939-1941 -- The road to Pearl
Harbor -- Diplomacy for victory, 1941-1945 -- Founding the United
Nations, 1941-1945 -- The rift with the Soviets, 1945-1947 -- The
Cold War, 1947-1950 -- Communism and the Korean conflict -- World
tensions and the Middle East crisis -- The end of the Eisenhower era
-- New frontier diplomacy -- The ordeal of Lyndon Johnson -- Nixonian
foreign policy -- The Kissinger era -- Carter and humanitarian
diplomacy -- Epilogue: From colonies to Colossus.
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